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This is a list of recognised pioneering expeditions to Greenland that contributed to the cartography of the territory.
Expedition
Year(s)
Area
Leader
Pining–Pothorst Expedition
1472
Southeast Greenland
Didrik Pining and Hans Pothorst
Third Northwest Passage Voyage
1578
South Greenland
Martin Frobisher
Danish Allday Expedition
1579
South Greenland
James Allday[1]
Danish Heinason Expedition
1581
South Greenland
Magnus Heinason[2][3]
John Davis' Expeditions to the Northwest Passage
1583–1587
Southwest Greenland
John Davis
Christian IV's Expeditions
1605–1607
Southeast Greenland
John Cunningham
Godske Lindenov
Carsten Richardson
James Hall
Hall Expedition
1612
Southwest Greenland
James Hall and William Baffin
English Button Expedition
1612–1613
Southwest Greenland
Josias Hubert
Baffin Expedition
1616
West Greenland
William Baffin
Walløe Expedition
1751–1753
Southeast Greenland
Peder Olsen Walløe
Ross Expedition
1818
Northwest Greenland
John Ross
Scoresby's Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery in the Baffin of Liverpool
1822
East Greenland
William Scoresby
Commissioners for the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea Expedition
1823
East Greenland
Douglas Charles Clavering and Edward Sabine
Graah Expedition
1828–1830
Southeast Greenland
W. A. Graah
La Lilloise Expedition
1833
Southeast Greenland
Jules de Blosseville
Inglefield Expedition
1852
Northwest Greenland
Edward Augustus Inglefield
First German North Polar Expedition
1868
Northeast Greenland
Carl Koldewey
Second German North Polar Expedition (Germania and Hansa)
1869–1870
Northeast Greenland
Carl Koldewey
British Arctic Expedition
1875–1876
North Greenland
George Nares
J. A. D. Jensen Expedition
1878
Inland ice in West Greenland
J. A. D. Jensen
Lady Franklin Bay Expedition
1881-1884
Nares Strait area in far northern Greenland
Adolphus Greely
Umiak Expedition
1883–1885
Southeast Greenland
Gustav Holm and Thomas Vilhelm Garde
Second Dickson expedition
1883
West Greenland and East Greenland at Ammasalik
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
Upernavik Mapping Expedition
1886–1887
Northwest Greenland
Carl Ryder
Nansen Expedition
1888
Across the inland ice
Fridtjof Nansen
Ryder's East Greenland Expedition
1891–1892
Scoresby Sund system
Carl Ryder
Peary's North Greenland Expeditions
1891–1892
North Greenland
Robert Peary
Swedish NW Greenland Expedition
1892
Northwest Greenland
Johan Alfred Björling
Peary's North Greenland Expeditions
1893–1895
North Greenland
Robert Peary
Ingolf Expedition
1895–1896
East Greenland
C.F. Wandel
Peary's Arctic Club Expedition
1898–1902
North Greenland
Robert Peary
Sverdrup Expedition
1898
Northwest Greenland
Otto Sverdrup
Carlsbergfund Expedition to East Greenland
1898–1900
Coast between Ammassalik Island and Scoresby Sound
G. C. Amdrup
Swedish Greenland Expedition to search for Andrée
1899
Northeast Greenland
Alfred Gabriel Nathorst
Literary Expedition
1902–1904
Northwest Greenland
Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen and Knud Rasmussen
Duke of Orléans Arctic Expedition
1905
Northeast Greenland
Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans[4]
Denmark expedition
1906–1908
Northeast Greenland
Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen[5]
Alabama Expedition
1909–1912
Northeast Greenland
Ejnar Mikkelsen[6]
First Thule Expedition
1912
North Greenland
Knud Rasmussen and Peter Freuchen
Second Swiss Expedition
1912
Across the inland ice
Alfred de Quervain
Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land
1912–1913
Across the inland ice
J.P. Koch
Second Thule Expedition
1916–1918
North Greenland
Knud Rasmussen
Third Thule Expedition
1919
North Greenland
Knud Rasmussen
Fourth Thule Expedition
1919–1920
East Greenland
Knud Rasmussen
Bicentenary Jubilee Expedition
1921–1923
North Greenland
Lauge Koch
1929–1930 Expedition to East Greenland
1929–1930
Northeast Greenland
Lauge Koch
German Greenland Expedition
1930–1931
Across the inland ice
Alfred Wegener[7]
British Arctic Air Route Expedition
1930–1931
East Greenland
Gino Watkins
Sixth Thule Expedition
1931
Northeast Greenland
Knud Rasmussen
1932–1933 Greenland expedition
1932–1933
East Greenland
Gino Watkins until his death, then John Rymill
Gefion Expedition
1932
Northeast Greenland
Johannes Gerhardt Jennov and Alf Trolle
Scoresby Sund Committee's 2nd East Greenland Expedition
1932
East Greenland
Ejnar Mikkelsen
Three-year Expedition to East Greenland
1931–1934
East Greenland
Lauge Koch[8]
British East Greenland Expedition
1935–1936
East Greenland
Lawrence Wager
Cartographic Air Expedition
1938
North Greenland
Lauge Koch
Mørkefjord Expedition
1938–1939
Northeast Greenland
Eigil Knuth
Norwegian-French Expedition
1938–1939
Northeast Greenland
Gaston Micard
Danish Peary Land Expedition.[9]
1947–1950
North Greenland
Eigil Knuth
British North Greenland Expedition
1952–1954
North and Northeast Greenland
James Simpson
1956–1958 Expedition to East Greenland
1958–1959
East Greenland
Lauge Koch
^Vahl et al., p. 6.
^Vahl et al., p. 7.
^Halvor Kjellberg. "Mogens Heinessøn". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
^Barr, William (2010). "The Arctic voyages of Louis-Philippe-Robert, Duc d'Orléans". Polar Record. 46 (1): 21–43. doi:10.1017/S0032247409008377. S2CID 129100092.
^G. Amdrup: Report on the Danmark Expedition to the North-East Coast of Greenland 1906–1908. In: Meddelelser om Grønland 41, 1913, pp. 1–270
^Vahl et al., p. 96.
^The German Greenland Expedition 1930–1931
^The Three-Year Expedition 1931-34
^Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind 50 (1950) Dansk Pearyland Ekspedition. Sidste års meteorologi og topografisk overblik
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